Outrage over pipeline contracts to Tompolo, Gani Adams, others

Wide criticisms are trailing President Goodluck Jonathan’s approval of contracts for securing the waterways and oil pipelines to companies owned by ex-militants and factional leaders of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC).

The Presidency is understood to have directed the Police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to quit the job for the companies which have been signed on by the government.

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Niyi Akintola, described the plan as an act of corruption which has no precedent anywhere in the world.

“Why must we encourage the establishment and operation of ex-militants in securing our oil pipelines? What is the responsibility of the Police and the Navy if the ex-militants are to be saddled with the responsibility? It is an act of corruption in itself and I don’t think the intention has any precedent anywhere in the world. I don’t know when tribal militias have the right to carry out security surveillance in the country.

“When given the contracts, would they not be interested in having their own national cake? It appears all you need to become a millionaire and command respect in the country is to be a militant. I don’t think a decent society would encourage this because it emboldens other militants to ask for a similar advantage and this is why we are in this quagmire.”

He feared that the plan could lead to another form of insurgency “and that will amount to endangering the society the more. The financiers of Boko Haram are certainly regretting their actions today. So the Federal Government should think twice and allow the Navy and the Police to do their jobs.

“In Dubai, there is always constant air force patrol in the sky. After the 9/11 attack in America, their air force patrols the city all the time. That is what nations that are serious about their internal security do. They don’t entrust their security to militants.”

Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo blasted the Federal Government for conceiving the idea in the first place, saying: “It is irresponsible of the Federal Government to give up part of its security to individuals. The money that would be given to such people should be used to equip the Police and the Navy. If this is done, they will perform better. The plan is simply a political patronage. Those people will not guide anything. It is all part of corruption on the part of the Federal Government.”

Retired Police Commissioner, Abubarkar Tsav, blamed the plan on the desperation of President Jonathan to win the forthcoming presidential election at all costs.

His words: “It is wrong to do such. Jonathan is too desperate. It may be that he wants to use them against Nigerians. We have the Police and the Navy to do that. Why is he bringing in the ex-militants and OPC people to do their job? He has possibly done that because of this election. Jonathan has lost focus and I don’t know what our security chiefs are doing. The security of the country appears not to mean anything to them.”

He warned that: “If we abandon the Police and the Navy that are trained and engage ex-militants who have at one time or the other attacked the country to secure our water ways and oil pipelines, it will spell doom for the country. I was really very sad when I read the story.”

Dr Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic lawmaker, said: “This latest reckless move by Jonathan and the PDP with their collaborators in the Senate and the House of Representatives is an indication of the desperate stand with which the party and the government are prepared to endorse Jonathan at all costs.

“You can’t hire out the functions of the government to an individual no matter how connected they are. If they do that, it means they don’t mind to do anything illegal to win the election. I don’t know the values that ex-militants, Gani, Fasheun and others have to improve the security in our water ways and oil pipelines.”

Barrister Collins Dike, Secretary General of Rivers Lawyers Network, said they are free to get contracts from the Federal Government, but was quick to point out that the matter goes beyond the law.

“From the security perspective, giving the security of the oil pipelines and the water ways to the likes of Tompolo is a serious matter. He was given a similar contract before and with all the money that was given to him by the Federal Government, the security situation became worse. This simply means that they don’t have the capacity to provide such security. What security qualification do they have to even do that?” he said.

Wilson Esangbedo, a security expert, advised the government to remove politics from security issues because the plan could push the country into a crisis.

He said: “The government should know what is right and they should it. The militants can turn the ships meant for securing the waterways against us. They are not professionals and have no professional ethics. Militants are used to taking things by force and if the government refuses to meet their demands, it may have grave consequence. “

What is the gang up about going for election. Words are losing their meanings in modern Nigeria. You mean there must be no opposition GEJ should just be allowed to carry on regardless of performance in office. Nigerians want to vote based on their past four year experience and you are crying “gang-up”.

DON´T MIND THEM. WHEN THEY POTRAY THE ONLY QUALIFICATION OF GEJ TO BE PRESIDENT AS A MAN FROM THE SS, THEY MISS IT ALL. BECAUSE EVEN IF ALL THE PEOPLE+CHICKEN+WORMS ALL VOTE FOR GEJ WITHOUT THA PARTICIPATION OF OTHER REGIONS THEY MAN WILL STILL LOOSE THE ELECTION. IS IT THE SS THAT VOTED THIS CLUELESS MAN IN 2011? LET THE SS PEOPLE CONTINUE TO SPEAK THE WAY THEY LIKE AND INSULT THE SENSIBILITIES OF NIGERIANS BUT I MUST REMIND YOU THAT EVEN IF GEJ FINDS HIMSELF BACK IN ASO ROCK, HE MUST SURELY LEAVE ONE DAY AND THEN WE SHALL SEE. IF YOU DON´T KNOW LET ME TELL YOU THAT THE WAY THIS MAN IS GOING HE MAY BE THE FIRST FORMER PRESIDENT TO ROT IN PRISON. !!!NIGER-DELTANS BE WISE!!!

We knew when OPC endorsed President Jonathan was due to pipeline security contract They are bastards. Gani Adams, Frederick Fasheun and so called Afenifere are thieves. History will never forget them..

The oil that generates your acclaimed billions of dollars is from his God given land. You and your leech brothers should swallow all your land can provide for you if any. Stop crying for what that is not yours .

You folks deceive yourself. There is no God given land to a specific area of the country indigenes. Resources of the country belongs to the nation. The question, is how reasonable, effective and efficient are the resources managed for the benefit of all.

So all water ways should be blocked from lagos, because they belong to lagos, and the Navy and other ships going to Niger Delta should be barred, because it is Lagos’s water? Then how is the crude oil to be exported? Perhaps the crude oil can be air cargo from the SS?

When GEJ was running for the Presidency, perhaps he should have declared that he will be the president of Niger Delta Otuoke. May be he might have been elected by the whole country, including the North that his wife and Dokubo have insulted? GEJ is not a patriotic President, otherwise he would not be giving contracts to supposedly silent enemies of the state – like Dokubo who said he is not Nigerian on national TV. Why then does he need to guide Nigerian waterway? Would Dokubo be so patriotic to care about such waterway guided well?

So, I hope you get all my sarcastic questions here. It smacked reasonableness, good judgement, critical thinking, even sane sense and logical reasoning, in the face, how GEJ is managing Nigeria. What is baffling is how all other PDP stalwarts who might think of themselves as patriotic Nigerians, are just standing idly without comments to all these cluelessness by GEJ!

Did you locate the Atlantic ocean, Lagos and south – south before this your comment? Lagos coast has nothing to do with access waterways into south – south. Why is the north avoiding true federalism? Abeg, all this do or die struggle is just because of the oil otherwise Buhari at 73yrs won’t come out to contest election with his son’s mate. Jonathan should do whatever he likes, after all eno easy to be a president. Cikina

My brother, people like 14one who obviously sufer from mind closure cannot appreciate your flow even if they understand it. haven sold out to the bigoted stand point, they are better left to their dwidling devices. After all, judgement day is nigh.

When you analyze President Jonathan’s foray into public service from Bayelsa State as the deputy governor and then governor, to the federal government as the VP and President for the past 6 years, you’d be left to conclude that he holds no allegiance to faith, tribe, place of origin or principle other that of massive diversion of public funds. EFCC had a huge dossier on his wife as first lady of Bayelsa money laundering for him. As President he met an oil theft-mafia stealing 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day – watch Dr. Dele’s cole interview on FT in 2008 in their video archive no. 6234700300… and you’d know the mafia was there before Jonathan, actually started under Obasanjo – and Jonathan converted the mafia to his purpose and made it quasi-mainstream through concessions, in a nutshell he started laundering the oil theft through official channels, by removing the oversight possible through state policing activities of the pipelines and the waterways, awarding contracts to the same oil-theft-mafia to safeguard the pipelines and the waterways!

Through this channel he had bilked more than $60b and counting – because they pump oil at a rate no one knows anymore, could be more than 500,000 barrels…..and through all these we hear even his village has no electricity. Someone who could make a Dubai out of his village and who embezzle the “Dubai” why would anyone from the south south claim him? Jonathan is an ill wind that blows NO ONE any good. You may argue that the oil-theft-mafia he uses as the forces of production are enriched and that they are mainly south-south people with some South-East elements as well, however we would still say this is a handful of people amongst millions and as such inconsequential and in the final scheme of things criminal since it is ill gotten wealth. Mind you there are international collaborators who were supplying the Niger Delta militants with weapons to keep the system going before Yaradua granted them amnesty as a way to break the vicious cycle, however since Jonathan got there it went back up again after the concessions contracts – and the international collaborators not supply the militants with private jets, war ships and you bet – weapons.

Unravelling the nexus between these activity and Boko Haram in the North – a false flag operation obviously – is the key to achieving peace and progress in Nigeria. My bet is on Nigeria and Nigerians, Our heroes past achieve independence without firing a single shot, we the inheritors would achieve independence from Jonathan’s mafia peacefully and through the ballot box, even though Jonathan’s mafia is prepared for war to permanently balkanize Nigeria and become the Oil Sheiks of Africa, who by the way would not develop the Niger Delta even if they were to achieve that. Everyone in the South-South and South-East should tis up and say NOT IN OUR NAME the same way Isaac Boro one of our heroes past and those like him stood up to be counted when the chips are down. Luckily all that is being asked is to express this through the ballot box by voting massively for Buhari.

Jonathan-mafia’s oil theft contracts:
President Jonathan have personally supervised the grand theft, through two contracts financed with tax payers money, since January 2012 (possibly fall of 2011) of 400,000 barrels of oil per day by those he hand-picked to safeguard the supply lines against theft. According to Soludo: “First, you (Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala) admit that ‘oil theft’ has reduced oil output from the average 2.3 – 2.4 million barrels per day to 1.95 mpd (meaning that at least 350,000 to 450,000 barrels per day are being ‘stolen’). On the average of 400,000 per day and the oil prices over the past four years, it comes to about $60bn ‘stolen’ in just four years.

– This is done through two 2 contracts that Jonathan signed to rebel leaders from his tribe.

These are the 2 contracts by the Jonathan administration that is a major feed to the monster bedevilling Nigeria and turning it into a failed state, and a personal estate of King Jonathan, it was fall 2011 & 2012 time frame – widely reported by Wall Street Journal and major newspapers in Nigeria – just google it – I like the composition in the piece titled, Help, This Nigerian State Is Failing By Ayobami Oyalowo:

”In August, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) broke some disturbing news about Nigeria. It was reported that some ex-militants in the Niger Delta had been paid about N6.32billion within the past one year by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Yes, for the ‘noble’ service of providing security against vandals for the Corporation’s oil pipeline network. Imagine! The breakdown, as outlined by WSJ, is this:

As if that was not enough an insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians, earlier in the year the Federal Government awarded a contract worth $103.4million (over N15billion) to the Global West Vessel Specialist Limited (GWVSL) – a firm widely believed to be owned by Tompolo to supply 20 vessels for the use of the nation’s military authorities to secure the waterways. Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Ziadeke Akpobolokemi, had last year sent a memo titled, “Award of Contract for the Strategic Concessioning Partnership with NIMASA to Provide Platforms for Tracking Ships and Cargoes, Enforce Regulatory Compliance and Surveillance Of The Entire Nigerian Maritime Domain,” to President Goodluck Jonathan.

In considering the memo, President Goodluck Jonathan and Akpobolokemi chose GWVSL as the preferred company for the 10-year concession agreement, renewable for two terms of five years each. Jonathan, in a memo dated 9th November, 2011, with reference number PRES/99/MT/61, approved Akpobolokemi’s memo, which the Federal Executive Council rubber-stamped on 5th January, 2012. According to Akpobolokemi, GWVSL “will provide platforms for effective policing of Nigeria’s maritime domain and ensure compliance with international maritime conventions on vessels and ships voyaging the country’s waters”. NIMASA maintains that the concessionaire would help the Federal Government to enforce the sabotage law and collect levies on its behalf. This, in a country that still maintains a statutory Naval force, and without a track record for GWVSL?

From the above, the current occupant of the presidential villa showed where his loyalty lies…rather than train the military, he equipped criminals and vandals who had taken up arms against the state. No wonder so much arms and ammunition have found their way into Nigeria and our country has now become one gigantic human abattoir where someone is killed on an average of an hour, daily. Between January to May 2014 it has been estimated that over 1,500 people have been mindlessly cut down by terrorists and blood thirsty killers.’ [The number killed date under Jonathan is tracked on line and it stands at 35,065 – that is the equivalent of Liechtenstein, a country in Europe, wiped out from the face of the Earth, with a territory the size of Belgium carved away].

You are either an Apc agent or you lost the contract to tompolo and Adams other than that, you are unnecessarily taking medicine for another person’s sickness. If Jonathan like, let him convert all the accrued resources coming from oil to himself and whosoever he likes after all the oil is derived from his God given land. So it is my kind suggestion to you to please swallow that which your land offered you and stop making noise

So how come this your GEJ hash´t even made the so-called true federalism the threshold of his administration for 6years? It baffles me when the Niger-delta people speak and think in this manner. This guy has not helped you people at all. Your are worst off today under good luck. Some of us have the opportunity to have lived in the Niger-delta area for 11yrs and i tell you that the average Niger-deltan is very terrible in their reasoning. Have you even asked yourself what will happen when Jonathan lives Aso Rock? what do you think will happen when the another president promotes ethnicity and clannishness as much as GEJ. Even if Nigeria is a contraption by Lugard, at least we are still a country and you guys alone don´t have the capacity to destroy Nigeria contrary to what most of you believe. The nigerian constitution vests all authority and ownership of land to the “STATE” and no man can lay claim to it as – such even when you purchase a piece you are offers a “certificate of ownership” (CofO) not a certificate of ownership. Pipeline and waterways security contracts to militants spell doom for any country. Niger-deltans be wise!!!

Fight for your self and forget what happens in the Niger Delta. Yes they are not better off under Jonathan but they likam so. It did not start from Jonathan because if the north performed excellently as you are portraying, there won’t exist oceans of almajiris there and there wouldn’t have existed boko haram there today. Whether Una like or not Jonathan remains president of Nigeria till 2019, thereafter kwankwaso will take over and hand over to me in 2027. The Oracle has spoken.

Does the land belong to Jonathan alone, or was he born with the land, didn’t his great grand father’s died and leave the land behind or his he going to take the land along when he died. For your information poverty still looms in Jona community where some people hardly get two meal a day yet, he squander our collective resources. May God help you to regain your senses.

Neither do the land belong to you. Even in America, there are still poor people there. Nigeria is not heaven, if you want every thing to fill your insatiable needs go to heaven and leave Jonathan alone, period.

Thank you. When GMB gets elected in two weeks, God’s willing,and he takes over, there should be a bill passed and a declaration to the whole Nigeria, given 90 days, to all Nigerians who have any firearm weapons to voluntarily give them up at designated military centers throughout the country. For those that have permits and licenses to re validate them at these military centers too. For the local hunters throughout the country with locally made weapons to be registered and get permits.

After 90 days, and for anyone caught with firearm weapons should automatically gets 30 years prison term and expedited court trial by special judiciary branch to be created for such purposes. Any arms robbers and kidnappers that kill anyone should be automatic death sentence by this special judiciary branch. So these cases do not stall in court for multiple years. Maximum of 3-6 months trial period hould be given these cases.

We need to sanitize Nigeria. There should be special military/joint task force (including intelligence) designated to seek and capture any weapons – including in the North, Niger Delta, etc. The house should pass a bill and declare silence internal war against weapons and give GMB budget to prosecute it and clean up Nigeria – in a democratic process and way.

Morrison, all great countries are built on lofty dreams, perhaps you don’t know. Singapore, Hongkong, US, etc. Visionary leaders are different from mediocre one like GEJ. Perhaps you should read a bit about Daniel Burnham, a great US master planner – whom planned Chicago, he said: Make No small plans, make big plans. Nigerians need to think like that.

jonathan and pdp, NIGERIA IS NOT FOR SALE. EMPTY OUR TREASURY TO AND FOR ALL THESE PARASITES BUT BOTH OF YOU (jonathan & pdp) WILL STILL LOSE THE ELECTION COME MARCH 28TH & APRIL 11TH. WE YORUBAS NOW KNOW WHY THE IRRESPONSIBLE EVIL AFENIRERE, FASEUN AND THE STARK ILLETERATE CAPENTER gani adams ARE ALL SUPPORTING THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT NIGERIA EVER HAD.

The issue of these phony contract awards must be considered a step beyond corruption. It appears like a tactical guardedness targeted to achieve alternative purposes by the Jonathan cabal. Some of these ex-militants that just won further new multi-million dollars contracts recently, openly ordered sophisticated war equipment. Now, two new guarded steps: removal of naval and police-official eyes-from their operations and corralling both faction of the perceived western militia that could possibly rise as a couter force against Jonathan’s militia if shove comes to push into the juicy contracts suggests that we ought to look beyond the popular issue of corruption.

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Giving them contracts is just a tip of the iceberg, they will be used to foment pre and post elections violence. They will be fractured and factioned into numerous bodies soon and made very formidable; is anyone still wandering while we are still battling with Bokoharam? BH soldiers might be getting fund from the desperate president to carry out some ‘contract’ . All these for political gains of a clueless leader. Come to think of it: Alameisia has been granted pardon and might become a senator(God forbid!), Abacha has been given a soft landing and possibly going to become a governor, Charges have been dropped against Fayose and he is now a governor, Militants are licensed to procure arms for the country and carry out security functions, religious leaders (pastors and imams) have been heavily paid to preach against an opponent, Aba-Moro is still in office after all that happen during the NIS recruitment saga, first lady has instigated her supporters to stone opposition, bail jumpers are engaged to make decision and so on; and somebody will say these are propaganda from the opposition. All these are there for us to verify one after the other. Let’s put sentiment apart and vote wisely. Jona has no match for Buhari, the truth be told!